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re: My Experience with Private Equity
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:54 pm to Shwapp
Posted on 10/10/25 at 10:54 pm to Shwapp
Regarding Berkshire Hathaway:
I worked for a company that was bought out by a subsidiary of B-H. Not much happened the first year. (Insurance rates went down due to being under the umbrella of a larger company. ). Slowly but surely, things became more corporate. More scrutinized. One morning they called us all on and cut 1/3 of the company in one swoop. 2 years later probably 5 percent of the original workforce is all that’s left.
I worked for a company that was bought out by a subsidiary of B-H. Not much happened the first year. (Insurance rates went down due to being under the umbrella of a larger company. ). Slowly but surely, things became more corporate. More scrutinized. One morning they called us all on and cut 1/3 of the company in one swoop. 2 years later probably 5 percent of the original workforce is all that’s left.
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Posted on 10/11/25 at 7:46 am to HonCHO
Greed is the ugly side of capitalism. You can have nice profits and a thriving, happy workplace if greed does not take over. Unfortunately, this is all too common in America today.
Posted on 10/11/25 at 11:54 am to KCkid
GE has been doing the same thing for years. Buy a company, squeeze all the profits out of it for 3-4 years, then sell the intellectual property and physical property. Then lay everyone off that is left. Private equity is doing the same thing. PE just hopes to have a company left to sell at the end of four years so they can tell the next company that they buy and sell companies, instead of buying companies and running them into the ground
Posted on 10/11/25 at 11:59 am to HonCHO
Wrong board
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